It's bigger than voting
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It's bigger than voting
Simple question media outlets should ask him is would he allow his children to wear them. That should reveal everything about what he thinks about them
I know Imelda Padilla is seething right now
Repealing the Faircloth cap & increasing funding towards public housing would help as well as a vacancy tax & land tax to prevent speculative land hoarding
Apartments, plexes, townhomes & mixed use developments would be legal to build by right around transit
Buying apartments wouldn't see the same amount of profitability as buying neighborhoods does. 1 is also a lot more expensive to develop, manage & acquire
Glorious
He always looks like he's on something
Yea people outside of NYC don't really know the NYPD gave our former mayor De Blasio hell and doxxed his Black daughter bc he told his son to be careful around the cops
I hear you, I think it's the tone. If you compare the scenes with Nina being killed by Scar in Brotherhood vs 03, it felt more tragic in the latter because it was stretched out. If we're going off of the canon 03 episodes, then 2003 takes it
Listen, I like the animation style of OG FMA, but yes the story went off the rails
Food network and the
Clean as I go to minimize dishes
Desserts, love the sugars
Read the recipe first, keep your station clean and learn temperature control. Eggs are a good beginner food, if you can make eggs without half of it sticking to the pan, you're good
Braised short ribs over polenta
Italian probably
Calamari & mozzarella sticks
There's this chocolate mousse cake I like but hate making, there's a cookie crust bottom, chocolate sponge cake, chocolate mousse & a chocolate ganache. Each part uses dishes & takes overnight to set
Being a latchkey kid
Stuffing, Salmon, pickles, potato & macaroni salad
Soul Food, Italian, Chinese & Mexican
Eggs, it was a good starter food to learn with
Bread Pudding
Excluding the protein; flour, cheese, onion, tomato, garlic
Eggplant Involtini
To be fair, they were already going to be at half mast because of 9/11, Trump is just changing the narrative
Got shot by probably a White man and his last words being about gang violence is poetic
I dunno, you seem pretty insufferable to me Good Luck on that "strength" of yours
There's Confederate flags in Ohio, New York & Pennsylvania, the US is built on racism & the only way to survive is with community. Something you can't relate to
Was that center mass?!?
You have no sense of community, so you wouldn't get it
Sending thoughts
The reason why you left is the same reason why they stay, a local community & family
If you believe I'm a Bernie bro, you're unfortunately proving my point. Black intellectuals helped form my politics, from Fred Hampton, Kwame Ture, WEB DuBois & Malcolm; not Bernie, not AOC & not Mamdani. I'm going to mute this, but I hope you'll abandon your pessimism towards the next generation
It's not about me knowing better, it's recognizing that my generation's wants & needs differ from yours, just like the next generation in their 20s have their own opinions on everything. Telling me to have integrity as a Black man comes off as condescending, not a good look for an elder
You can't say "so you don't need my Black vote" but then say that you don't care. If you didn't care, you wouldn't engage or more than likely you don't like that younger Black folks are tired of the Democratic party & have more expectations than you do/did. This neoliberal shit has to die
That's part of the problem, I understand it but our progress will always come at the expense of capital bsky.app/profile/fres...
Wait who did you vote for in the primary?
That's something you should hold the Democratic party accountable for, If James Clyburn can endorse Mamdani then you have to ask why older Black folks are the ones that are stuck on establishment politics & the status quo
A few people have noted the past 75 years of a middle class is a historical anomaly, generally there's the rich & the poor. The rich have been trying to go back to those historic norms since FDR
Videogame Animal Crossing
Tea has more options
Squid Game, you die quicker
This bullshit
Taking on debt instead of taxing wealth has been the dumbest policy several countries continue to make. The other side of that debt is several parties profiting off of this system
no new pictures, where are you at mentally?
I was watching a breaking points vid on an Abundance conference & even tho Mamdani is the perfect example of a politician that wants to use the gov to deliver for the ppl, they shy away from him & his message bc ultimately they're backed by Neo-Liberals & Libertarians who are pro markets
The housing shortage isn’t inevitable, it’s a policy choice. Tillamook Row's 16 homes, surrounding shared lawns, gardens and a community room, show what’s possible when we actually allow abundant, walkable, community-oriented housing to be built. 📍Portland, OR
This feels uniquely American, the fact that we can't do anything different bc we're different is a cop out
That part, suburbanites complaining about the city is a tale as old as time
Barcade's are fun too
The cognitive dissonance is strong in folks
With the last name Baptiste and they don't think he was Haitian?!?
Yea there's very few transit systems that can operate on fares alone, the MTA over here had a shortfall because of covid & fare evasion. BART might have to consider tolled highway lanes or a congestion tax to address that gap until Prop13 gets removed or revised
8 right-of-first-refusal laws 9 vacancy taxes 10 tenants' unions 11 good-cause eviction laws, 12 stricter licensing requirements and stiffer penalties for failure to keep apartment in good condition 2/2
Ways to de-commodify housing; 1 cooperative ownership of apartment buildings, 2 rent control, 3 guaranteed legal counsel in tenant-landlord court, 4 improve and expanded tenant's rights, 5 community land trust 6 high quality public housing 1/2
Kinda, the vacant homes in that count include secondary or vacation homes, homes between buyers or tenants, or dilapidated homes in economically distressed areas. The places where there are jobs & basic amenities are being bought up as assets to accumulate wealth. Tax reform is the better play
Because the cost of materials and labor goes up every year. The maintenance costs today isn't the same last year or 5 years before that.
From what I remember, the income taxes are progressive but the sales & property taxes are regressive especially w/ prop13 being a factor. Some municipalities reliee on new developments w/ the impact fees but that was recently struck down by the supreme Court for being excessive
But you're happy to take the money that NYC generates?
NYC purchases electricity, do you not know what steal means?
Wouldn't that make you the welfare city?
Based on what data or report?
NYC generates around 45% of the total GDP for NY state & receives something around 40% back. It gives more than it receives
How?
Why would anybody who doesn't like cities care about the outcome of this race?
I can bet you don't even live in the city
Apparently Colorado Massachusetts & Jersey
Dem Nigerians I tells ya
If I was a betting man, my money would be on Braniac
I think Lobo is supposed to be in Supergirl's movie
To be fair, I don't like Adams but at least he didn't try to cripple NYCs "City of Yes" plan that consisted of upzoning large parts of the city & updating the land uses to eliminate parking mandates around transit & allow ADUs by right
Gotta go with the courtyard
The most frustrating thing is HUD could solve a shit ton of problems but they keep appointing some of the most incompetent ppl to those positions
Yea sounds like too many ppl can cause a leak
There's still elections during war, hell we had 1 during the Civil War
That was my go to spot when I went to City Tech
Yea that's all that should be said about it, equal rights for all doesn't have exceptions
I remember my cousin was venting about his daughter hating him & I'm like dude you're married to a new woman & you're out flirting with other women. I don't think your daughter is going to be fond of that
Rookie mistake, should've had a third party take the data
So do parks, which is annoying when people think any city improvement is "gentrification"
Or the city council can mandate that any number of units that are rent controlled must be kept when the building is redeveloped. If a 4 unit building w/ 2 rent controlled units is redeveloped into a 16 unit building & 2 of the units are rent controlled, then there isn't much of a loss
Yea, when you don't stand for anything it's easy for your "messaging" to be co-opted & bastardized. They looked at Zohrans campaign & believe his ads are the reason why he won the primary, when it was just his policies
Group hangouts, winner stays on the sticks. First it was fighting games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat & Tekken then we moved to shooters with GoldenEye & Halo
Customizable protagonists Shitty sidekick AI that you have to protect
